Generalities
Commonly known as Lung-wort is a remedy for coryza, bronchial catarrh, nervous and rheumatic disturbances. General feeling of dullness and lassitude as when a cold is coming. Rheumatic, stiffness. Nervous, sense of levitation of different parts. Painful dry mucous membranes. Diagonal pains. Hysteria; chorea; after loss of blood. Ill effects of falls, haemorrhages.
Worse
Night. Lying down. Motion. Change of temperature.
Better
Free discharges. Open air.
Mind
Feels as if she must talk, about everything and anything; whether listened to or not. Lively, kicks her heels up. Feels as if floating in air.
Head
Aches before catarrhal discharge appears. Heaviness; forehead.
Eyes
Burning of eyelids with soreness of eyeballs on closing lids or turning eyes.
Nose
Pressure or stuffy fullness at the root of nose. Constant need to blow the nose but no discharge. Painful dryness of mucous membranes. Coryza which dries up soon, forming scabs difficult to dislodge. Hay fever, incessant sneezing.
Throat
Dry; dropping of mucus posteriorly.
Stomach & Abdomen
Diarrhoea frothy, in morning.
Urinary
Profuse urination, with sore painful bladder.
Female
Absence of milk after delivery.
Respiratory
Tickling high up in pharynx. Incessant dry hacking cough prevents sleep, worse coughing, inspiration; towards evening and when tired; after measles, colds; influenza; whooping cough. Air passages numb. Pulsation from right side of sternum down to abdomen. Bronchitis. Pain from sternum to spine worse motion.
Neck and Back
Sore stiff neck; pains to shoulder. Restless hands and feet. Legs as if floating in the air. Rheumatism. Red spots on affected joints. Bursitis esp. about the knee. Cold moist limbs. Profuse sweat on hands. Chorea like spasms.
Sleep
Sleepless from nervousness; from cough; after surgical operations.
Related
Elaps; Guai; Sang; Thuja